Roberto Torretti: on Concepts and Objects in Kant

Abstract

In this paper, I will examine two little-known articles by Roberto Torretti on Kant: “Objectivity – a Kantian Perspective” and “Concepts and Objects”. In these two writings, Torretti studies the role of concepts in the constitution of objects, particularly in the Transcendental Deduction of the first edition of the Critique of Pure Reason, and emphasizes some aspects in which Kant's doctrine should be complemented or expanded. I will examine Torretti's arguments aimed at reformulating Kant's table of categories and postulating that the only original concept of the understanding is that of combination or composition.